Hook and eye fastener



Dec. 29, 1964 W. S. SHEE HOOK AND EYE FASTENER Filed June l2, 1962 United States Patet 3,162,919 HK AND EYE FASTENER William S. Shea, Woodbridge, Conn., assigner to Scovil Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn., a carporation of Connecticut Filed .inne 12, 1962, er. No. 292,906 2 Ciaims. (Cl. 24-226) This invention relates to hook-and-eye fasteners and particularly to a sheet metal hook and eye that is adapted to be secured to a garment by stitching operation. This type of fastener is commonly employed to establish a quick detachable connection between two parts of a garment, such as the waistband at the top of a trouser fly or the side opening of a skirt.

When the attaching stitches began toloosen from repeated use, the above type or" hook-and-eye fastener elements would tend to llip over or bias away from their normal dat position against the garment. This, of course, made it more ditlicult to hook the members together, and in some cases, made it necessary to re-attach the members to the garment.

Therefore, it is one of the objects of this invention to provide an extension on each member adjacent the attaching bar that will serve to prevent the members from biasing away from the garment, thereby maintaining the hook and eye in proper position for engagement with each other.

Another object of this invention is to provide a hookand-eye member that can be attached to a garment by a bar tacking operation and wherein the interconnection between the bar tack stitching and fastener member will prevent side play.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be understood from a consideration of the following description and the accompanying drawing. In the drawing:

FIG. 1 shows hook and eye members employing my invention as they appear attached to a garment;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the hook member;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the same;

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the eye member;

FIG. 5 is a side view of the same; and

FIG. 6 is a cross-section through the members as they appear attached to a garment support, and in position ready to be hooked.

FIG. l of `the drawing shows a hook-andeeye fastener 10 and 11, respectively, attached to the waistband portion of a garment 12 by bar tacks 13 and 14. The hook member 10, made of llat stock such as metal, consists of a flat base 15 that has at one end an integrally attached hooked loop 16 formed upwardly and inwardly to overlie said base. A spring tongue 17 is formed out of the loop 16 and out of a portion of the base for spring-locking engagement with the eye member. This is a conventional feature with this type of hook-and-eye fastener and forms no part of the present invention.

A cross-bar 18 anked by openings 19, is provided in the base 15 opposite the loop 16 for the purpose of attaching the hook member 1t? to a garment support 12. The longitudinal edges of the cross-bar 1S, as noted in FIG. 2, are formed with a saw-tooth shape to provide a series of V-shaped angular notches 20 on opposite sides of said bar.

When the hook-andeye members are attached by a bar-tacking operation, the needle will pass through the openings 19 outwardly of the crest points of the crossbar 18, and as the stitches alternately cross over the top of the cross-bar 18, some of them will be crowded into the opposed angular notches 2t). This, in addition to securing the hook member to the support, will eiectively prevent any lateral movement of the hook member relative to the garment after attachment has been made.

After the attachment is made and the garment is used for a period of time, it is natural for the bar-tack stitching to loosen to such an extent that the hook member will tend t'o flip over or bias outwardly from its normal flat position against the garment and make it inconvenient to line up and connect the hook-and-eye members together. To overcome this fault, a lug 21 projects from that end of the base 15 opposite the loop 16 and is biased outwardly from the plane of the base 15. As noted in FIG. 6, this biased lug 21 will alord a supporting surface against the adjacent face of the garment to preclude any tendency of the hook member to tilt.

The eye member 11 similar to the hook member 10, is formed of tlat stock to provide a blank 22 with a large piercing or opening 23 therein. The blank 22 has a flat base part 24 and an outwardly biased part 25 at one end, which, in fact, is the eye loop of the eye member. The base part 24 is provided with a cross bar 26 having opposed angular notches 27 for the same purposes as notches 20 in the cross-bar 18 of the hook member 10. This eye member 11 is provided with an inwardly biased lug 28 at the end opposite the part 25 which is similar to the lug 21 of the hook member 1t). In each case, the cross bars 18 and 26 extend transversely of the base and are located nearer the ends'having the lugs 21 and 2S than to the opposite ends.

When the eye member 11 is attached to a garment support, the base part 24 will rst be positioned against the garment and held there in place by the bar tack 14 with the threads crowded into the angular notches 27 to prevent lateral movement of the eye member through the garment.

As noted in FIG. 6, after the bar tack attachment is made, the eye loop 25 will be held in an outwardly biased relation to the garment to place it in the most convenient position to be engaged by the hook loop 16 of the hook member 10 when securing the parts to each other.

One form of the invention is presented herein for the purpose of exemplication, but it will be appreciated that the invention is susceptible to changes and other structural modified forms coming equally within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A garment fastener comprising complementary hookand-eye members (a) said hook member comprising a flat base having a hooked loop extending from one end thereof and an outwardly biased lug projecting from the opposite end thereof;

(b) said eye member comprising a at base having an eye loop biased outwardly from one end of said base and a lug projecting from said base opposite from said eye loop and also biased inwardly from said base oppositely from the bias of said eye loop; and

(c) each of said bases having a transversely extending cross bar located nearer to the end having one of said lugs than to the opposite end around which stitching may be placed to secure the hook or eye member to a garment.

Y 3,162,919 Y 3 e 2. A garment fasteneii as dened in claim 1 wherein 1,042,753 Barton Oct. 29, 1912 the opposite longitudinal'edges of .the cross bar are formed 1,301,855 Linhart Apr. 29, 1919 with angular recesses to receive the cross threads of the 1,877,885 Kerngood Sept. 20, 1932 attachment stitching and to prevent lateral movement of 2,099,199 Devendor et a1 NOV, 15J 1937 the hook- 11d-e e me bers when attached to a arment pie a y m Y g 5 FOREIGN PATENTS n 308,956 Germany Nov. 5, 1918 References Cited in the file of this patent 192,336 Switzerland APL 16, '1938 UNITED STATES PATENTS 256,222 `Svvitzerlaizid Feb. 16, 1949 645,845 `Barnett Mar. 20, 1900 

1. A GARMENT FASTENER COMPRISING COMPLEMENTARY HOOKAND-EYE MEMBERS (A) SAID HOOK MEMBER COMPRISING A FLAT BASE HAVING A HOOKED LOOP EXTENDING FROM ONE END THEREOF AND AN OUTWARDLY BIASED LUG PROJECTING FROM THE OPPOSITE END THEREOF; (B) SAID EYE MEMBER COMPRISING A FLAT BASE HAVING AN EYE LOOP BIASED OUTWARDLY FROM ONE END OF SAID BASE AND A LUG PROJECTING FROM SAID BASE OPPOSITE FROM SAID LOOP AND ALSO BIASED INWARDLY FROM SAID BASE OPPOSITELY FROM THE BIAS OF SAID EYE LOOP; AND (C) EACH OF SAID BASES HAVING A TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING CROSS BAR LOCATED NEARER TO THE END HAVING ONE OF SAID LUGS THAN TO THE OPPOSITE END AROUND WHICH STITCHING MAY BE PLACED TO SECURE THE HOOK OR EYE MEMBER TO A GARMENT. 